The Future Fund seems to think so, via Fairfax:
The best defence against the threat of the loss of Australia’s AAA rating is a convincing strategy to manage the transition away from mining investment, Mark Burgess, the former Future Fund boss, has argued.
“The world looks at Australia for whether a commodity-based economy can navigate to the next stage,” he said, “because that’s the way global investors think. We’re a commodity nation.”
